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Susan is a nurse who works two 12 hour shifts in the city each week so she can live up in the mountains and pursue mountain sports the rest of the time. This was taken on a ski tour out of Stevens Pass, WA. I think she should pursue a bit of modeling of outdoor gear to get some swag.

Here are some more from a recent photo shoot of young Caleb with a baseball theme. All comments are welcome, Jim

From a recent photoshoot with young Caleb. Not everyone cares for the textured look, but I like the feel it can give. I will process some also without it, to give the client options. In my first pass through processing the session I pick select photos to apply texturing to. All comments are...

Looks like this lens will be available in about a week along with other Sigma FE primes. I'm really exited about this lens before seeing any reviews! What are your thoughts about this lens? Is it worth the gamble before seeing any reviews? Note: Intend to use for protraits

This photo was processed with Topaz Labs new AI Clear Adjustment. I have just started "testing" this adjustment but so far I have been impressed. It automatically removes the noise and sharpens the photo. Are there any others here using Topaz Labs' Studio software? It's A Lovely Day by Tom...

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Here are a few from Brian's Portrait shoot.

A portrait session that was later used for their engagement photos as they were both in the military at the time and were serving in Germany. They had both come home before the official engagement and wanted to shoot a Love Session, where they just wanted their love for each other captured...

And this is Vittorio, he's a character here on the island, he has a very tough familiar history and a long list of diseases but he's tough to knock down, as usual he's kind of a phenomenon for the local community and as such he thinks we all want to make fun of him, in this attempt to take a pic...

When I photograph people I try to catch their soul not their smile or attractive features, when I showed this shot to the subject's brothers they thought it was to make fun of him because he, Fulvio, has gone through a lot in life and fights depression since years, when I showed it to Fulvio, on...

The main church where I live is on the way to home, by that time along my photography passion I wanted to like the Fuji ML system and with me in a bag there was the little X-Pro1 with the 35mm which allowed me to take this snap without being noticed, I am pretty proud of this not because of the...

One of my favorite shots from a session I did this afternoon...

I have basically stopped doing portrait work in favor of shooting images without people, (landscape, nature, cities...etc...). This was one of my last portraits I shot about a year ago of the lovely Celeste. Celeste 02 by Ryan Luna, on Flickr